EP2913101B1 - Facilitated co2 transport membrane and method for producing same, and method and apparatus for separating co2 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane that is used for separating carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), particularly to a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane that separates carbon dioxide produced as a by-product in a hydrogen production process or the like at a high selection ratio to hydrogen.
- the present invention further relates to a method for producing the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane, and a method and an apparatus for separating CO 2 using the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane.
- a chemical absorption method that is used in a decarbonation processes in existing large-scale plants such as hydrogen production plants and ammonia production plants requires a huge CO 2 absorption tower and a huge regeneration tower for a CO 2 absorbing liquid in order to separate CO 2 , and in a regeneration step for the CO 2 absorbing liquid, requires a large amount of steam for heating the CO 2 absorbing liquid to remove CO 2 therefrom so that the liquid absorbing CO 2 can be reused, and therefore energy is wastefully consumed.
- CCS Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage
- a CO 2 separation and collection process using a membrane separation method is intended to separate a gas by means of a difference in velocity of gases passing through a membrane using a partial pressure difference as driving energy, and is expected as an energy-saving process because the pressure of a gas to be separated can be utilized as energy and no phase change is involved.
- Gas separation membranes are broadly classified into organic membranes and inorganic membranes in terms of a difference in membrane material.
- the organic membrane has the advantage of being inexpensive and excellent in moldability as compared to the inorganic membrane.
- the organic membrane that is used for gas separation is generally a polymer membrane prepared by a phase inversion method, and the mechanism of separation is based on a solution-diffusion mechanism in which a gas is separated by means of a difference in solubility of the gas in the membrane material and diffusion rate of the gas in the membrane.
- the solution-diffusion mechanism is based on the concept that a gas is first dissolved in the membrane surface of a polymer membrane, and the dissolved molecules diffuse between polymer chains in the polymer membrane.
- a gas component A the permeability coefficient is P A
- the solubility coefficient is S A
- D A the diffusion coefficient
- S A /S B is referred to as solubility selectivity
- D A /D B is referred to as diffusivity selectivity.
- a permeable membrane called a facilitated transport membrane that allows selective permeation of a gas by a facilitated transport mechanism, in addition to a solution-diffusion mechanism, using a substance called a "carrierā which selectively and reversibly reacts with CO 2 (see, for example, Patent Document 1 below).
- the facilitated transport mechanism has a structure in which a membrane contains a carrier which selectively reacts with CO 2 .
- CO 2 passes not only physically by the solution-diffusion mechanism but also as a reaction product with the carrier, so that the permeation rate is accelerated.
- gases such as N 2 and H 2 , which do not react with the carrier, pass only by the solution-diffusion mechanism, and therefore the separation factor of CO 2 with respect to these gases is extremely high.
- Energy generated during the reaction of CO 2 with the carrier is utilized as energy for releasing CO 2 by the carrier, and therefore there is no need to supply energy from outside, so that an essentially energy-saving process is provided.
- Patent Document 1 International Publication No. WO 2009/093666
- Patent Document 1 proposes a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having a CO 2 permeance and a CO 2 /H 2 selectivity feasible at a high temperature condition of 100Ā°C or higher by using as a carrier a specific alkali metal salt such as cesium carbonate or rubidium carbonate.
- the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane has a higher CO 2 permeation rate as compared to a membrane based on a solution-diffusion mechanism, but the number of carrier molecules that react with CO 2 molecules becomes less sufficient as the partial pressure of CO 2 increases, and therefore improvement is required for accommodating the membrane to carrier saturation even at such a high CO 2 partial pressure.
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst is a catalyst that increases the reaction rate of the CO 2 hydration reaction shown in the following (Chemical Formula 1).
- the symbol " ā " in the reaction formulae shown herein indicates that the reaction is a reversible reaction.
- (Chemical Formula 1) CO 2 + H 2 O ā HCO 3 + H +
- the reaction of CO 2 with the CO 2 carrier is expressed by the following (Chemical Formula 2) as an overall reaction formula.
- the (Chemical Formula 2) is based on the assumption that the CO 2 carrier is a carbonate.
- the CO 2 hydration reaction one of elementary reactions of the above-mentioned reaction, is an extremely slow reaction under a catalyst-free condition, and addition of a catalyst accelerates the elementary reaction, so that the reaction of CO 2 with the CO 2 carrier is accelerated, and as a result, improvement of the permeation rate of CO 2 is expected.
- (Chemical Formula 2) CO 2 + H 2 O + C0 3 2- ā 2HCO 3 -
- the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features contains a CO 2 carrier and a CO 2 hydration catalyst in a separation-functional membrane, the reaction of CO 2 with the CO 2 carrier is accelerated, so that a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having an improved CO 2 permeance and an improved CO 2 /H 2 selectivity can be provided.
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst effectively functions even at a high CO 2 partial pressure, the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity at a high CO 2 partial pressure are each improved.
- the separation-functional membrane is composed of a gel membrane rather than a liquid membrane or the like, high selective permeability to hydrogen can be stably exhibited even under pressure.
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst preferably has catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- the reaction of CO 2 with the CO 2 carrier is thereby accelerated at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, so that a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having an improved CO 2 permeance and an improved CO 2 /H 2 selectivity can be provided under such a temperature condition.
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst preferably has a melting point of 200Ā°C or higher, and is preferably soluble in water.
- the catalyst when the melting point of the CO 2 hydration catalyst is 200Ā°C or higher, the catalyst can exist in the separation-functional membrane while being thermally stable, so that performance of the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane can be maintained over a long period of time. Further, when the CO 2 hydration catalyst is soluble in water, a hydrophilic polymer gel membrane containing a CO 2 hydration catalyst can be easily and stably prepared. When a tellurite compound, a selenite compound, an arsenite compound, an orthosilicate compound or a molybdate compound is used as the CO 2 hydration catalyst, stable improvement of membrane performance can be expected because all of these compounds are water soluble and have a melting point of 200Ā°C or higher.
- the gel membrane is preferably a hydrogel, namely a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid (PVA/PAA) salt copolymer gel membrane.
- PVA/PAA polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid
- the hydrogel is a three-dimensional network structure formed by crosslinking a hydrophilic polymer, and has a nature of being swollen when absorbing water.
- a person skilled in the art may call the polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid salt copolymer occasionally a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid copolymer.
- the gel membrane as a separation-functional membrane is composed of a hydrogel having a high water-holding capacity in the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, a maximum possible amount of water can be held in the membrane even at a high temperature that causes a reduction in the amount of water in the separation-functional membrane, so that high selective permeability of CO 2 to hydrogen can be achieved at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- the CO 2 carrier preferably contains at least one of a carbonate of an alkali metal, a bicarbonate of an alkali metal and a hydroxide of an alkali metal, and further the alkali metal is preferably cesium or rubidium.
- a carbonate of an alkali metal preferably a bicarbonate of an alkali metal and a hydroxide of an alkali metal
- the alkali metal is preferably cesium or rubidium.
- High selective permeability of CO 2 to hydrogen can be thereby achieved more reliably at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- a reaction expressed by the above occurs when the CO 2 carrier is a carbonate of an alkali metal
- a reaction expressed by the following (Chemical Formula 3) occurs when the CO 2 carrier is a hydroxide of an alkali metal.
- the (Chemical Formula 3) shows a case where the alkali metal is cesium as an example.
- (Chemical Formula 3) CO 2 + CsOH -> CsHCOs CsHCO 3 + CsOH -> C S2 CO 3 + H 2 O
- the separation-functional membrane is preferably supported on a hydrophilic porous membrane.
- the strength of the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane at the time of use is improved.
- a sufficient membrane strength can be secured even when a pressure difference between both sides (inside and outside of a reactor) of the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane is large (e.g. 2 atm or larger).
- the porous membrane supporting a separation-functional membrane as a gel membrane is hydrophilic, a gel membrane having reduced defects can be stably prepared, so that high selective permeability to hydrogen can be maintained.
- the porous membrane is hydrophobic, it is supposed that penetration of water contained in the gel membrane into the pores of the porous membrane and the resulting reduction of membrane performance can be prevented at 100Ā°C or lower, and a similar effect may be expected at 100Ā°C or higher where the amount of water in the gel membrane is small. Therefore, use of a hydrophobic porous membrane is recommended.
- high selective permeability to hydrogen can be maintained with reduced defects by using a hydrophilic porous membrane for the following reason.
- the gel membrane in pores provides a great resistance to gas permeation, leading to a reduction in gas permeance due to low permeability as compared to the gel membrane on the surface of the porous membrane.
- H 2 is much smaller in molecular size than CO 2 , and therefore at a minute defect part, the permeance of H 2 is remarkably larger than that of CO 2 .
- the permeance of CO 2 passing by the facilitated transport mechanism is considerably larger than the permeance of H 2 passing by the physical solution-diffusion mechanism.
- the separation-functional membrane supported on the hydrophilic porous membrane is preferably covered with a hydrophobic porous membrane.
- the separation-functional membrane is thereby protected by the hydrophobic porous membrane, leading to a further increase in strength of the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane at the time of use.
- the separation-functional membrane is covered with the hydrophobic porous membrane, and therefore even when steam is condensed on the membrane surface of the hydrophobic porous membrane, water is repelled and thereby prevented from penetrating the separation-functional membrane because the porous membrane is hydrophobic. Accordingly, the hydrophobic porous membrane can prevent a situation in which the CO 2 carrier in the separation-functional membrane is diluted with water, and the diluted CO 2 carrier flows out of the separation-functional membrane.
- a cause which hinders downsizing and reduction of the startup time in conventional shift converters is that a large amount of a shift catalyst is required due to the restriction from chemical equilibrium of the CO shift reaction expressed by the following (Chemical Formula 5).
- a reforming system for a 50 kW PAFC phosphoric acid fuel cell
- the shift catalyst is required in an amount of 77 L, about 4 times the amount of the reforming catalyst. This is a major factor of hindering downsizing and reduction of the startup time in the shift converter.
- (Chemical Formula 5) CO + H 2 O ā CO 2 + H 2
- the present invention provides a method for producing the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a cast solution including an aqueous solution containing the hydrophilic polymer, the CO 2 carrier and the CO 2 hydration catalyst that is soluble in water; and casting the cast solution on a hydrophilic porous membrane and then gelling the cast solution to prepare the separation-functional membrane.
- the method for producing the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, since a cast solution is prepared beforehand in which the relative amounts of the CO 2 carrier and the water-soluble CO 2 hydration catalyst to the hydrophilic polymer is properly adjusted, proper adjustment of the blending ratio of the CO 2 carrier and the CO 2 hydration catalyst in the final gel membrane can be easily and conveniently achieved, so that performance of the membrane can be enhanced.
- the present invention provides a method for separating CO 2 using the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, with the CO 2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, wherein a mixed gas containing CO 2 and H 2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is supplied to the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane, and the CO 2 passing through the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane is separated from the mixed gas.
- an example related to the present invention provides a CO 2 separation apparatus comprising the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, with the CO 2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, wherein a mixed gas containing CO 2 and H 2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is supplied to the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane, and the CO 2 passing through the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane is separated from the mixed gas.
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst has catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, so that a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane that is applicable at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher and capable of achieving high selective permeability to hydrogen can be stably supplied in a decarbonation step in a hydrogen production process or the like.
- a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane having high selective permeability to hydrogen at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is used, so that CO 2 can be selectively separated with high efficiency from a mixed gas containing CO 2 and H 2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- the present facilitated transport membrane is a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane including a separation-functional membrane that includes a water-containing hydrophilic polymer gel membrane containing a CO 2 carrier and a CO 2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane serving at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher and having a high CO 2 permeance and a high CO 2 /H 2 selectivity, and the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane being applicable to a CO 2 permeable membrane reactor or the like. Further, for stably achieving a high CO 2 /H 2 selectivity, the present facilitated transport membrane includes a hydrophilic porous membrane as a support membrane that supports a gel membrane containing a CO 2 carrier and a CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- the present facilitated transport membrane includes a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid (PVA/PAA) salt copolymer as a membrane material of the separation-functional membrane, a carbonate of an alkali metal such as cesium carbonate (C S2 CO 3 ) or rubidium carbonate (Rb 2 CO 3 ) as the CO 2 carrier, and a salt compound of oxo acid as the CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- PVA/PAA polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid
- C S2 CO 3 cesium carbonate
- Rb 2 CO 3 rubidium carbonate
- a salt compound of oxo acid as the CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- a tellurite compound, a selenite compound, an orthosilicate compound or a molybdate compound is used for the CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- All of CO 2 hydration catalysts used in this embodiment are soluble in water, and extremely thermally stable with a melting point of 400Ā°C or higher, and have catalytic activity at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- the melting point of the CO 2 hydration catalyst is only required to be higher than the upper limit of temperature variations in steps in a method for producing the present facilitated transport membrane as described later (e.g. the temperature in the drying step or thermal crosslinking temperature).
- the melting point is, for example, about 200Ā°C or higher, a situation is avoided in which the CO 2 hydration catalyst is sublimed in the course of the production process, leading to a reduction in concentration of the CO 2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane.
- the present facilitated transport membrane is configured as a three-layer structure in which a hydrophilic porous membrane 2 supporting a separation-functional membrane 1 is held between two hydrophobic porous membranes 3 and 4 as schematically shown in Fig. 1 .
- the separation-functional membrane 1 as a gel membrane is supported on the hydrophilic porous membrane 2 and has a certain level of mechanical strength, and therefore is not necessarily required to be held between the two hydrophobic porous membranes 3 and 4.
- the mechanical strength can also be increased by, for example, forming the hydrophilic porous membrane 2 in a cylindrical shape. Therefore, the present facilitated transport membrane is not necessarily a flat plate-shaped one.
- the separation-functional membrane contains the PVA/PAA salt copolymer in an amount falling within a range of about 10 to 80% by weight, and the CO 2 carrier in an amount falling within a range of about 20 to 90% by weight based on the total weight of the PVA/PAA salt copolymer and the CO 2 carrier in the separation-functional membrane.
- the separation-functional membrane contains the CO 2 hydration catalyst, for example, in an amount of 0.01 times or more, preferably 0.02 times or more, further preferably 0.025 times or more the amount of the CO 2 carrier in terms of molar number.
- the hydrophilic porous membrane preferably has heat resistance to a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, mechanical strength and adhesion with the separation-functional membrane (gel membrane) in addition to hydrophilicity, and preferably has a porosity (void ratio) of 55% or more and a pore size falling within a range of 0.1 to 1 ā m.
- a hydrophilized tetrafluoroethylene polymer (PTFE) porous membrane is used as a hydrophilic porous membrane that satisfies the above-mentioned requirements.
- the hydrophobic porous membrane preferably has heat resistance to a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, mechanical strength and adhesion with the separation-functional membrane (gel membrane) in addition to hydrophobicity, and preferably has a porosity (void ratio) of 55% or more and a pore size falling within a range of 0.1 to 1 ā m.
- a non-hydrophilized tetrafluoroethylene polymer (PTFE) porous membrane is used as a hydrophobic porous membrane that satisfies the above-mentioned requirements.
- a PVA/PAA salt copolymer is used as the hydrophilic polymer
- cesium carbonate (C S2 CO 3 ) is used as the CO 2 carrier
- a tellurite e.g. potassium tellurite (K 2 TeO 3 )
- the amounts of the hydrophilic polymer, the CO 2 carrier and the CO 2 hydration catalyst are illustrative, and show amounts used in sample preparation in examples described below.
- a cast solution including an aqueous solution containing a PVA/PAA salt copolymer, a CO 2 carrier and a CO 2 hydration catalyst is prepared (step 1). More specifically, 2 g of a PVA/PAA salt copolymer (e.g. provisional name: SS Gel manufactured by Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Company Limited), 4.67 g of cesium carbonate, and a tellurite in an amount of 0.025 times the amount of cesium carbonate in terms of molar number are added to 80 g of water, and the resultant mixture is stirred until they are dissolved, thereby obtaining a cast solution.
- a PVA/PAA salt copolymer e.g. provisional name: SS Gel manufactured by Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Company Limited
- step 2 the cast solution obtained in step 1 is cast on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane side surface of a layered porous membrane by an applicator (step 2), the layered porous membrane being obtained by joining two membranes: a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane (e.g. WPW-020-80 manufactured by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER, INC.; thickness: 80 ā m; pore size: 0.2 ā m; void ratio: about 75%) and a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane (e.g.
- the casting thickness in samples of examples and comparative examples described later is 500 ā m.
- the cast solution penetrates pores in the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane, but is inhibited from penetrating at the boundary surface of the hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane, so that the cast solution does not permeate to the opposite surface of the layered porous membrane, and there is no cast solution on a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane side surface of the layered porous membrane. This makes handling easy.
- the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane after casting is naturally dried at room temperature, and the cast solution is then gelled to produce a separation-functional membrane (step 3).
- gelation means that the cast solution as a polymer dispersion liquid is dried into a solid form, and the gel membrane is a solid membrane produced by the gelation, and is clearly distinguished from a liquid membrane.
- the cast solution is cast on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane side surface of the layered porous membrane in step 2, and therefore the separation-functional membrane is not only formed on a surface (cast surface) of the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane but also formed so as to fill pores in step 3, so that defects (minute defects such as pinholes) are hard to occur, leading to an increase in membrane production success rate of the separation-functional membrane.
- a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane identical to the hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane of the layered porous membrane used in step 2 is superimposed on a gel layer side surface of the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane obtained in step 3 to obtain the present facilitated transport membrane of three layer structure including a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane / a separation-functional membrane supported on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane / a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane as schematically shown in Fig. 1 (step 4).
- Fig. 1 schematically and linearly shows a state in which the separation-functional membrane 1 fills pores of the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane 2.
- the blending ratio of the CO 2 carrier and the CO 2 hydration catalyst can be adjusted in step 1 of producing a cast solution, and therefore, as compared to a case where after formation of a gel membrane that does not contain at least one of the CO 2 carrier and the CO 2 hydration catalyst, at least one of the CO 2 carrier and the CO 2 hydration catalyst is added into the gel membrane, adjustment of the blending ratio can be more accurately and easily performed, leading to enhancement of membrane performance.
- Example 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 were prepared in accordance with the present production method described above.
- the weights of the solvent (water), the hydrophilic polymer and the CO 2 carrier in the cast solution prepared in step 1 are the same among Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2.
- the hydrophilic polymer a PVA/PAA salt copolymer was used.
- the CO 2 carrier cesium carbonate (C S2 CO 3 ) is used except for Example 6, and the weight ratio of cesium carbonate to the total weight of the PVA/PAA salt copolymer and cesium carbonate (carrier concentration) is 70% by weight in each of the examples and comparative examples.
- rubidium carbonate (Rb 2 CO 3 ) is used as the CO 2 carrier, and the weight ratio of rubidium carbonate to the total weight of the PVA/PAA salt copolymer (2 g) identical to that in Example 1 and rubidium carbonate (4.67 g) (carrier concentration) is 70% by weight.
- Examples 1, 6 and 7 potassium tellurite (melting point: 465Ā°C) was used as the CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- sodium arsenite (NaO 2 As, melting point: 615Ā°C) and sodium orthosilicate (Na 4 O 4 Si, melting point: 1018Ā°C) were used, respectively, as the CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- the molar ratio of the CO 2 hydration catalyst to the CO 2 carrier is 0.025 in Examples 1 to 5, 0.05 in Example 6, and 0.2 in Example 7.
- the sample in Comparative Example 1 was prepared in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the cast solution prepared in step 1 in the production method described above did not contain a CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- the sample in Comparative Example 2 was prepared in the same manner as in Example 6 except that the cast solution prepared in step 1 in the production method described above did not contain a CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- the flow rate of the supply side gas is 3.47 ā 10 -2 mol/min, and the supply side pressure is 600 kPa (A).
- (A) means an absolute pressure. Accordingly, the CO 2 partial pressure on the supply side is 142 kPa (A).
- the pressure of the supply side chamber is adjusted with a back pressure regulator provided on the downstream side of a cooling trap at some midpoint in an exhaust gas discharging passage.
- the pressure of the permeate side chamber is atmospheric pressure
- H 2 O (steam) is used as a sweep gas made to flow into the permeate side chamber
- the flow rate thereof is 7.77 ā 10 -3 mol/min.
- an Ar gas is inpoured, steam in the gas containing the Ar gas is removed by the cooling trap, the composition of the gas after passing through the cooling trap is quantitatively determined by the gas chromatograph, the permeance [mol/(m 2 ā¢sā¢kPa)] of each of CO 2 and H 2 is calculated from the composition and the flow rate of Ar in the gas, and from the ratio thereof, the CO 2 /H 2 selectivity is calculated.
- the experiment apparatus has a pre-heater for heating the gas and the flow type gas permeation cell with a sample membrane fixed therein is placed in a thermostatic oven in order to keep constant the use temperature of the present facilitated transport membrane of each sample and the temperatures of the supply side gas and the sweep gas.
- Fig. 3 shows a list of constitutional conditions (CO 2 carrier, CO 2 hydration catalyst, molar ratio of CO 2 carrier to CO 2 hydration catalyst, hydrophilic polymer) and membrane performance (CO 2 permeance, H 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity) for separation-functional membranes of the samples in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2.
- Fig. 4 shows, in the form of a graph, the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity in Examples 1 to 5 and Comparative Example 1. It is apparent from Figs.
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst is a catalyst for increasing the reaction rate of a CO 2 hydration reaction expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 1)
- a reaction of CO 2 with a CO 2 carrier which includes the CO 2 hydration reaction as one of elementary reactions and which is expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 2), is accelerated, leading to an increase in CO 2 permeance by the facilitated transport mechanism. This is consistent with the experiment results shown in Fig. 3 .
- the H 2 permeation mechanism may be based on the solution-diffusion mechanism rather than the facilitated transport mechanism, and it is considered that the H 2 permeance is not directly affected by presence/absence of the CO 2 hydration catalyst, the blending ratio and type thereof, and the like.
- the samples in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 are different in constitutional conditions for the separation-functional membrane, and are therefore each individually prepared. Therefore, differences in measurement value of H 2 permeance among the samples are considered to mainly result from individual differences (variations) in membrane quality of the hydrophilic polymer gel membrane. It is to be noted that the H 2 permeance may be indirectly affected by influences on membrane quality of the hydrophilic polymer gel membrane given by differences in amount, type and the like of the CO 2 carrier and the CO 2 hydration catalyst in addition to the individual differences in membrane quality.
- Fig. 5 shows, in the form of a graph, the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity in Examples 1 and 6 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2.
- Fig. 6 shows, in the form of a graph, the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity in Examples 1 and 7 and Comparative Example 1.
- Comparative Example 3 having a liquid membrane (aqueous solution) as a separation-functional membrane was prepared as another comparative example.
- the aqueous solution of a separation-functional membrane in Comparative Example 3 does not contain the PVA/PAA salt copolymer used in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Example 1.
- cesium carbonate was used as a CO 2 carrier and potassium tellurite was used as a CO 2 hydration catalyst similarly to Example 1.
- a method for preparing Comparative Example 3 will be described.
- a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane was immersed in the aqueous solution for a separation-functional membrane (liquid membrane) for 30 minutes, and the hydrophilic PTFE membrane soaked with the aqueous solution was then placed on a hydrophobic PTFE membrane, and dried at room temperature for half a day or longer.
- another hydrophobic PTFE membrane is placed on the hydrophilic PTFE membrane to form a three-layer structure with the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane and the separation-functional membrane (liquid membrane) held between the hydrophobic PTFE membranes at the time of an experiment for evaluation of membrane performance.
- the present facilitated transport membrane includes a CO 2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane.
- the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane has such characteristics that in a certain thickness range, thickness dependency is kept low, so that the permeation rate of CO 2 hardly decreases even when the thickness increases.
- H 2 passes through the separation-functional membrane by the solution-diffusion mechanism as described above, and therefore its permeation rate tends to be inversely proportional to the membrane thickness.
- Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4 were prepared in accordance with the present production method described above. It is to be noted that a series of steps including step 2 and step 3 were repeated twice for increasing the thickness of the separation-functional membrane.
- the weights of the solvent (water), the hydrophilic polymer and the CO 2 carrier in the cast solution prepared in step 1 are the same among Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4, and identical to those in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2.
- cesium carbonate (Cs 2 CO 3 ) is used as the CO 2 carrier, and the weight ratio of cesium carbonate to the total weight of the PVA/PAA salt copolymer and cesium carbonate (carrier concentration) is 70% by weight.
- Example 8 lithium tellurite and potassium molybdate (K 2 O 4 Mo, melting point: about 919Ā°C) were used in this order as the CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- the molar ratio of the CO 2 hydration catalyst to the CO 2 carrier is 0.025 in Example 8, and 0.1 in Example 9.
- the sample in Comparative Example 4 was prepared in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the cast solution prepared in step 1 in the production method described above did not contain a CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- An experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4 is identical to the experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 described above including the gas composition and ratio of the supply side gas, the gas flow rate, the pressure, the use temperature and so on.
- Fig. 7 shows a list of constitutional conditions (CO 2 carrier, CO 2 hydration catalyst, molar ratio of CO 2 carrier to CO 2 hydration catalyst, hydrophilic polymer) and membrane performance (CO 2 permeance, H 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity) for separation-functional membranes of the samples in Examples 2, 8 and 9 and Comparative Examples 1 and 4.
- Fig. 8 shows, in the form of a graph, the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity in Examples 2 and 8 and Comparative Examples 1 and 4.
- the membrane thickness in Comparative Example 4 is about 2 times the membrane thickness in Comparative Example 1, but there is no difference in other constitutional conditions of the separation-functional membrane, and therefore there is substantially no difference in CO 2 permeance as it is not significantly influenced by the membrane thickness, whereas the H 2 permeance is much lower in Comparative Example 4 than in Comparative Example 1 due to the about 2-fold difference in membrane thickness.
- the CO 2 /H 2 selectivity is higher in Comparative Example 4 than in Comparative Example 1.
- Example 8 when comparison of membrane performance is made between Example 8 and Example 2, the membrane thickness in Example 8 is about 2 times the membrane thickness in Example 2, but there is no difference in other constitutional conditions of the separation-functional membrane, and therefore there is substantially no difference in CO 2 permeance as it is not significantly influenced by the membrane thickness, and an effect of improving the CO 2 permeance by the CO 2 hydration catalyst is similarly attained, whereas the H 2 permeance is much lower in Example 8 than in Example 2 due to the about 2-fold difference in membrane thickness. As a result, the CO 2 /H 2 selectivity is higher in Example 8 than in Example 2.
- Example 8 When comparison of membrane performance is made between Example 8 and Comparative Example 4, it is apparent that similarly to considerable improvement of the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity in Example 2 as compared to Comparative Example 1, the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity are considerably improved even when the thickness of the separation-functional membrane is large. That is, it has become evident that the effect of improving the CO 2 permeance due to presence of a CO 2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane is attained without depending on the thickness of the separation-functional membrane in a certain thickness range.
- Example 9 when comparison is made between Example 9 and Comparative Example 4, an effect of improving the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity due to presence of a CO 2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane can be confirmed even with a membrane thickness that is about 2 times the membrane thickness in Examples 1 to 7 also when the CO 2 hydration catalyst is potassium molybdate.
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst in each of Examples 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 and Example 10 described later is a salt compound of oxo acid of a group 16 element
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst in Example 4 (comparative) is a salt compound of oxo acid of a group 15 element
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst in Example 5 is a salt compound of oxo acid of a group 14 element
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst in Example 9 is a salt compound of oxo acid of a group 6 element.
- the CO 2 hydration catalyst is not limited to the salt compounds of oxo acid used in Examples 1 to 9 as long as it is a compound as defined in claim 1.
- the substance is soluble in water, and extremely thermally stable with a melting point of 200Ā°C or higher, and has catalytic activity at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- a configuration has been shown in which a hydrogel of a PVA/PAA salt copolymer as a hydrophilic polymer is used as a membrane material of a separation-functional membrane, and a hydrophilic porous membrane is used as a porous membrane that supports the separation-functional membrane.
- the hydrophilic polymer gel membrane contains a CO 2 hydration catalyst, the effect of improving the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity can also be exhibited, although varying in level, when a hydrophilic polymer other than PVA/PAA salt copolymers, such as, for example, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) or a polyacrylic acid (PAA) salt is used (not according to invention), or when a hydrophobic porous membrane is used as a porous membrane that supports the separation-functional membrane.
- PVA polyvinyl alcohol
- PAA polyacrylic acid
- Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5 were prepared in accordance with the present production method described above. It is to be noted that similarly to Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4, a series of steps including step 2 and step 3 were repeated twice for increasing the thickness of the separation-functional membrane.
- the weights of the solvent (water), the hydrophilic polymer and the CO 2 carrier in the cast solution prepared in step 1 are the same between Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5.
- cesium carbonate (C S2 CO 3 ) is used as the CO 2 carrier, and the weight ratio of cesium carbonate to the total weight of PVA and cesium carbonate (carrier concentration) is 46% by weight.
- the polymerization degree of polyvinyl alcohol used is about 2000, and the porous membrane supporting the separation-functional membrane is a PTFE porous membrane having a pore size of 0.1 ā m and a thickness of 50 ā m.
- Example 10 (comparative), potassium tellurite is used as a CO 2 hydration catalyst, and the molar ratio of the CO 2 hydration catalyst to the CO 2 carrier is 0.2.
- the sample in Comparative Example 5 was prepared in the same manner as in Example 10 except that the cast solution prepared in step 1 in the production method described above did not contain a CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- Example 10 Comparative
- Comparative Example 5 An experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5 is identical to the experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Examples 1 to 9 and Comparative Examples 1, 2 and 4 described above except for the ratio of gas components of the supply side gas, the supply side gas flow rate, the supply side pressure and the use temperature.
- the flow rate of the supply side gas is 6.14 ā 10 -2 mol/min
- the supply side pressure is 300 kPa (A)
- the temperature of the inside of the flow type gas permeation cell is fixed at 120Ā°C.
- Fig. 7 shows a list of constitutional conditions (CO 2 carrier, CO 2 hydration catalyst, molar ratio of CO 2 carrier to CO 2 hydration catalyst, hydrophilic polymer) and membrane performance (CO 2 permeance, H 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity) for separation-functional membranes of the samples in Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5.
- Example 10 Comparative
- Comparative Example 5 When comparison of membrane performance is made between Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5, it is apparent that the CO 2 permeance and CO 2 /H 2 selectivity are considerably improved. From this result, it has become evident that the effect of improving the CO 2 permeance due to presence of a CO 2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane is attained also when polyvinyl alcohol is used as the hydrophilic polymer. Accordingly, it is well conceivable that the effect of improving the CO 2 permeance is attained irrespective of the composition of the hydrophilic polymer.
- Figs. 9A and 9B are each a sectional view schematically showing an outlined structure of a CO 2 separation apparatus 10 of this embodiment.
- a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane modified into a cylindrical structure is used instead of the facilitated CO 2 transport membrane of flat plate structure described in the first embodiment.
- Fig. 9A shows a cross section structure at a cross section perpendicular to the axial center of a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane (the present facilitated transport membrane) 11 of cylindrical structure
- Fig. 9B shows a cross section structure at a cross section extending through the axial center of the present facilitated transport membrane 11.
- the present facilitated transport membrane 11 shown in Figs. 9A and 9B has a structure in which a separation-functional membrane 1 is supported on the outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical hydrophilic ceramic porous membrane 2.
- the separation-functional membrane 1 includes a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid (PVA/PAA) salt copolymer as a membrane material of the separation-functional membrane, a carbonate of an alkali metal such as cesium carbonate (C S2 CO 3 ) or rubidium carbonate (Rb 2 CO 3 ) as the CO 2 carrier, and a tellurite compound, a selenite compound, an aresenite compound and an orthosilicate compound as the CO 2 hydration catalyst.
- PVA/PAA polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid
- the membrane structure in this embodiment is different from the membrane structure in the first embodiment in that the separation-functional membrane 1 and the hydrophilic ceramic porous membrane 2 are not held between two hydrophobic porous membranes.
- the method for producing the separation-functional membrane 1 and membrane performance thereof in this embodiment are basically similar to those in the first embodiment except for the above-mentioned difference, and therefore duplicate explanations are omitted.
- the present cylindrical facilitated transport membrane 11 is housed in a bottomed cylindrical container 12, and a supply side space 13 surrounded by the inner wall of the container 12 and the separation-functional membrane 1 and a permeate side space 14 surrounded by the inner wall of the ceramic porous membrane 2 are formed.
- a first feeding port 15 for feeding a source gas FG into the supply side space 13 and a second feeding port 16 for feeding a sweep gas SG into the permeate side space 14 are provided on one of bottom portions 12a and 12b on opposite sides of the container 12, and a first discharge port 17 for discharging a CO 2 -separated source gas EG from the supply side space 13 and a second discharge port 18 for discharging from the permeate side space 14 a discharge gas SG' including a mixture of a CO 2 -containing permeate gas PG passing through the present facilitated transport membrane 11 and the sweep gas SG are provided on the other of the bottom portions 12a and 12b on opposite sides of the container 12.
- the container 12 is made of, for example, stainless steel, and although not illustrated, the present facilitated transport membrane 11 is fixed in the container 12 with a fluororubber gasket interposed as a seal material between opposite ends of the present facilitated transport membrane 11 and the inner walls of the bottom portions 12a and 12b on opposite sides of the container 12 similarly to the experiment apparatus described in the first embodiment as an example.
- the method for fixing the present facilitated transport membrane 11 and the sealing method are not limited to the methods described above.
- each of the first feeding port 15 and the first discharge port 17 is provided in each of the supply side spaces 13 illustrated separately on the left and the right in Fig. 9B .
- the supply side spaces 13 annularly communicate with each other as shown in Fig. 9A
- the first feeding port 15 and the first discharge port 17 may be provided in one of the left and right supply side spaces 13.
- FIG. 9B shows as an example a configuration in which the first feeding port 15 and the second feeding port 16 are provided on one of the bottom portions 12a and 12b, and the first discharge port 17 and the second discharge port 18 are provided on the other of the bottom portions 12a and 12b, but a configuration may be employed in which the first feeding port 15 and the second discharge port 18 are provided on one of the bottom portions 12a and 12b, and the first discharge port 17 and the second feeding port 16 are provided on the other of the bottom portions 12a and 12b. That is, the direction along which the source gases FG and EG flow and the direction along which the sweep gas SG and the discharge gas SG' flow may be reversed.
- the source gas FG including a mixed gas containing CO 2 and H 2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is fed into the supply side space 13 and thereby supplied to the supply side surface of the present facilitated transport membrane 11, so that a CO 2 carrier contained in the separation-functional membrane 1 of the present facilitated transport membrane 11 is reacted with CO 2 in the source gas FG to allow selective passage of CO 2 at a high selection ratio to hydrogen, and the CO 2 -separated source gas EG having an increased H 2 concentration is discharged from the supply side space 13.
- the reaction of CO 2 with the CO 2 carrier requires supply of water (H 2 O) as shown in the above reaction formula of (Chemical Formula 2), and as the amount of water contained in the separation-functional membrane 1 increases, chemical equilibrium is shifted to the product side (right side), so that permeation of CO 2 is facilitated.
- the temperature of the source gas FG is a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher
- the separation-functional membrane 1 that is in contact with the source gas FG is also exposed to a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, so that water contained in the separation-functional membrane 1 is evaporated and passes into the permeate side space 14 similarly to CO 2 , and therefore it is necessary to supply steam (H 2 O) to the supply side space 13.
- the steam may be contained in the source gas FG, or may be supplied to the supply side space 13 independently of the source gas FG. In the latter case, steam (H 2 O) passing into the permeate side space 14 may be separated from the discharge gas SG' and circulated into the supply side space 13.
- the supply side space 13 is formed at the outside while the permeate side space 14 is formed at the inside of the present cylindrical facilitated transport membrane 11, but the supply side space 13 may be formed at the inside while the permeate side space 14 may be formed at the outside.
- the present facilitated transport membrane 11 may have a structure in which the separation-functional membrane 1 is supported on the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical hydrophilic ceramic porous membrane 2.
- the present facilitated transport membrane 11 used in the CO 2 separation apparatus is not necessarily cylindrical, but may be in the form of a tube having a cross-sectional shape other than a circular shape, and the present facilitated transport membrane of flat plate structure as shown in Fig. 1 may be used.
- the supply side space 13 can be used as a shift converter by filling the supply side space 13 with a shift catalyst.
- the CO 2 permeable membrane reactor is an apparatus in which, for example, a source gas FG produced in a steam reforming device and having H 2 as a main component is received in the supply side space 13 filled with a shift catalyst, and carbon monoxide (CO) contained in the source gas FG is removed through a CO shift reaction expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 5).
- CO 2 produced through the CO shift reaction is allowed to permeate to the permeate side space 14 selectively by means of the present facilitated transport membrane 11 and removed, whereby chemical equilibrium can be shifted to the hydrogen production side, so that CO and CO 2 can be removed beyond the limit imposed by equilibrium restriction with a high conversion rate at the same reaction temperature.
- a source gas EG freed of CO and CO 2 and having H 2 as a main component is taken out from the supply side space 13.
- the use temperature is considered to be 100Ā°C at minimum, and the temperature of the source gas FG supplied to the supply side surface of the present facilitated transport membrane 11 is 100Ā°C or higher. Therefore, the source gas FG is adjusted to a temperature suitable for catalytic activity of the shift catalyst, then fed into the supply side space 13 filled with the shift catalyst, subjected to the CO shift reaction (exothermic reaction) in the supply side space 13, and supplied to the present facilitated transport membrane 11.
- the sweep gas SG is used for maintaining the driving force for the permeation through the present facilitated transport membrane 11 by lowering the partial pressure of the CO 2 -containing permeate gas PG which permeates the present facilitated transport membrane 11 and for discharging the permeate gas PG to the outside.
- the partial pressure of the source gas FG is sufficiently high, it is not necessary to feed the sweep gas SG because a partial pressure difference serving as the driving force for permeation is obtained even if the sweep gas SG is not fed.
- a gas species used for the sweep gas steam (H 2 O) can also be used as in the case of the experiment for evaluation of membrane performance in the first embodiment, and further an inert gas such as Ar can also be used.
- the sweep gas SG is not limited to a specific gas species.
- a facilitated CO 2 transport membrane according to the present invention can be used for separating CO 2 from a mixed gas including CO 2 and H 2 at a high selection ratio to hydrogen in a decarbonation step in a hydrogen production process, a CO 2 permeable membrane reactor, and so on, and is useful particularly for separation of CO 2 at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
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- The present invention relates to a facilitated CO2 transport membrane that is used for separating carbon dioxide (CO2), particularly to a facilitated CO2 transport membrane that separates carbon dioxide produced as a by-product in a hydrogen production process or the like at a high selection ratio to hydrogen. The present invention further relates to a method for producing the facilitated CO2 transport membrane, and a method and an apparatus for separating CO2 using the facilitated CO2 transport membrane.
- In a hydrogen production process, it is necessary that CO2 produced as a by-product in the course of producing hydrogen be separated and removed from a hydrogen gas.
- A chemical absorption method that is used in a decarbonation processes in existing large-scale plants such as hydrogen production plants and ammonia production plants requires a huge CO2 absorption tower and a huge regeneration tower for a CO2 absorbing liquid in order to separate CO2, and in a regeneration step for the CO2 absorbing liquid, requires a large amount of steam for heating the CO2 absorbing liquid to remove CO2 therefrom so that the liquid absorbing CO2 can be reused, and therefore energy is wastefully consumed.
- In recent years, as a countermeasure for global warming, natural energy that does not emit CO2 has been expected to come into wide use, but natural energy has a significant problem in terms of cost. Thus, attention has been paid to a method called CCS (Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage) in which CO2 is separated and collected from waste gases from thermal power plants, ironworks and the like, and buried in the ground or sea. Currently, even CCS is based on application of the chemical absorption method. In this case, for separating and collecting CO2 from thermal power plants, not only large-scale CO2 separation equipment is required, but also a large amount of steam should be fed.
- On the other hand, a CO2 separation and collection process using a membrane separation method is intended to separate a gas by means of a difference in velocity of gases passing through a membrane using a partial pressure difference as driving energy, and is expected as an energy-saving process because the pressure of a gas to be separated can be utilized as energy and no phase change is involved.
- Gas separation membranes are broadly classified into organic membranes and inorganic membranes in terms of a difference in membrane material. The organic membrane has the advantage of being inexpensive and excellent in moldability as compared to the inorganic membrane. The organic membrane that is used for gas separation is generally a polymer membrane prepared by a phase inversion method, and the mechanism of separation is based on a solution-diffusion mechanism in which a gas is separated by means of a difference in solubility of the gas in the membrane material and diffusion rate of the gas in the membrane.
- The solution-diffusion mechanism is based on the concept that a gas is first dissolved in the membrane surface of a polymer membrane, and the dissolved molecules diffuse between polymer chains in the polymer membrane. Where for a gas component A, the permeability coefficient is PA, the solubility coefficient is SA, and the diffusion coefficient is DA, the relational expression: PA = SA Ć DA holds. The ideal separation factor Ī±A/B is expressed as Ī±A/B = PA/PB by taking the ratio of permeability coefficients between components A and B, and therefore Ī±A/B = (SA/SB)Ć(DA/DB) holds. Here, SA/SB is referred to as solubility selectivity, and DA/DB is referred to as diffusivity selectivity.
- Since the diffusion coefficient increases as the molecular diameter decreases, and the contribution of diffusivity selectivity is generally greater than that of solubility selectivity in gas separation, it is difficult to allow selective passage of gases having a larger molecular diameter by suppressing passage of gases having a smaller molecular diameter among multi-component gases having different molecular diameters.
- Therefore, it is extremely difficult to prepare a CO2 selective permeable membrane that separates, particularly from a mixed gas containing H2 and CO2, CO2 with high selectivity to H2 having the smallest molecular diameter among gas molecules. It is still more difficult to prepare a CO2 selective permeable membrane that is capable of being put to practical use in a decarbonation process in a hydrogen production plant or the like and that functions at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- Thus, studies are conducted on a permeable membrane called a facilitated transport membrane that allows selective permeation of a gas by a facilitated transport mechanism, in addition to a solution-diffusion mechanism, using a substance called a "carrier" which selectively and reversibly reacts with CO2 (see, for example,
Patent Document 1 below). The facilitated transport mechanism has a structure in which a membrane contains a carrier which selectively reacts with CO2. In the facilitated transport membrane, CO2 passes not only physically by the solution-diffusion mechanism but also as a reaction product with the carrier, so that the permeation rate is accelerated. On the other hand, gases such as N2 and H2, which do not react with the carrier, pass only by the solution-diffusion mechanism, and therefore the separation factor of CO2 with respect to these gases is extremely high. Energy generated during the reaction of CO2 with the carrier is utilized as energy for releasing CO2 by the carrier, and therefore there is no need to supply energy from outside, so that an essentially energy-saving process is provided. - Patent Document 1: International Publication No.
WO 2009/093666 -
EP 2,239,048 andJP 2009 195900 WO 2011/099587 are hereby acknowledged. -
US 4,117,079 A and the paper entitled "Preparation of Water-Swollen Hydrogel Membranes for Gas Separation" by You-In Park at al, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 80, are also acknowledged. -
Patent Document 1 proposes a facilitated CO2 transport membrane having a CO2 permeance and a CO2/H2 selectivity feasible at a high temperature condition of 100Ā°C or higher by using as a carrier a specific alkali metal salt such as cesium carbonate or rubidium carbonate. - The facilitated CO2 transport membrane has a higher CO2 permeation rate as compared to a membrane based on a solution-diffusion mechanism, but the number of carrier molecules that react with CO2 molecules becomes less sufficient as the partial pressure of CO2 increases, and therefore improvement is required for accommodating the membrane to carrier saturation even at such a high CO2 partial pressure.
- Further, there are expectations for provision of a facilitated CO2 transport membrane that is applicable at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher and has an improved CO2 permeance and an improved CO2/H2 selectivity in a decarbonation step in a hydrogen production process or the like.
- In view of the above-mentioned problems, it is an object of the present invention to stably supply a facilitated CO2 transport membrane having an improved CO2 permeance and an improved CO2/H2 selectivity.
- The present invention is set out in the claims.
- It is to be noted that the CO2 hydration catalyst is a catalyst that increases the reaction rate of the CO2 hydration reaction shown in the following (Chemical Formula 1). The symbol "ā" in the reaction formulae shown herein indicates that the reaction is a reversible reaction.
āāāāāāāā(Chemical Formula 1)āāāāāCO2 + H2O ā HCO3 + H+
- The reaction of CO2 with the CO2 carrier is expressed by the following (Chemical Formula 2) as an overall reaction formula. It is to be noted that the (Chemical Formula 2) is based on the assumption that the CO2 carrier is a carbonate. The CO2 hydration reaction, one of elementary reactions of the above-mentioned reaction, is an extremely slow reaction under a catalyst-free condition, and addition of a catalyst accelerates the elementary reaction, so that the reaction of CO2 with the CO2 carrier is accelerated, and as a result, improvement of the permeation rate of CO2 is expected.
āāāāāāāā(Chemical Formula 2)āāāāā CO2 + H2O + C03 2- ā 2HCO3 -
- Thus, since the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features contains a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst in a separation-functional membrane, the reaction of CO2 with the CO2 carrier is accelerated, so that a facilitated CO2 transport membrane having an improved CO2 permeance and an improved CO2/H2 selectivity can be provided. Further, since the CO2 hydration catalyst effectively functions even at a high CO2 partial pressure, the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity at a high CO2 partial pressure are each improved. Further, since the separation-functional membrane is composed of a gel membrane rather than a liquid membrane or the like, high selective permeability to hydrogen can be stably exhibited even under pressure.
- Further, in the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, the CO2 hydration catalyst preferably has catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher. The reaction of CO2 with the CO2 carrier is thereby accelerated at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, so that a facilitated CO2 transport membrane having an improved CO2 permeance and an improved CO2/H2 selectivity can be provided under such a temperature condition.
- Further, in the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, the CO2 hydration catalyst preferably has a melting point of 200Ā°C or higher, and is preferably soluble in water.
- Particularly, when the melting point of the CO2 hydration catalyst is 200Ā°C or higher, the catalyst can exist in the separation-functional membrane while being thermally stable, so that performance of the facilitated CO2 transport membrane can be maintained over a long period of time. Further, when the CO2 hydration catalyst is soluble in water, a hydrophilic polymer gel membrane containing a CO2 hydration catalyst can be easily and stably prepared. When a tellurite compound, a selenite compound, an arsenite compound, an orthosilicate compound or a molybdate compound is used as the CO2 hydration catalyst, stable improvement of membrane performance can be expected because all of these compounds are water soluble and have a melting point of 200Ā°C or higher.
- Further, in the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, the gel membrane is preferably a hydrogel, namely a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid (PVA/PAA) salt copolymer gel membrane.
- The hydrogel is a three-dimensional network structure formed by crosslinking a hydrophilic polymer, and has a nature of being swollen when absorbing water. Here, a person skilled in the art may call the polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid salt copolymer occasionally a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid copolymer.
- Even when the amount of water in the membrane is small, carbon dioxide is facilitatively transported, but its permeation rate is generally low, and therefore a large amount of water should be held in the membrane for achieving a high permeation rate. Further, when the gel membrane as a separation-functional membrane is composed of a hydrogel having a high water-holding capacity in the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, a maximum possible amount of water can be held in the membrane even at a high temperature that causes a reduction in the amount of water in the separation-functional membrane, so that high selective permeability of CO2 to hydrogen can be achieved at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- Further, in the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, the CO2 carrier preferably contains at least one of a carbonate of an alkali metal, a bicarbonate of an alkali metal and a hydroxide of an alkali metal, and further the alkali metal is preferably cesium or rubidium. High selective permeability of CO2 to hydrogen can be thereby achieved more reliably at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- Here, a reaction expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 2) occurs when the CO2 carrier is a carbonate of an alkali metal, while a reaction expressed by the following (Chemical Formula 3) occurs when the CO2 carrier is a hydroxide of an alkali metal. The (Chemical Formula 3) shows a case where the alkali metal is cesium as an example.
āāāāāāāā(Chemical Formula 3)āāāāāCO2 + CsOH -> CsHCOs CsHCO3 + CsOH -> CS2CO3 + H2O
- The reactions in the above (Chemical Formula 3) can be united into a reaction expressed by the (Chemical Formula 4). That is, this shows that added cesium hydroxide is converted into cesium carbonate. Further, it is apparent from the above (Chemical Formula 3) that a similar effect can be obtained when as a CO2 carrier, a bicarbonate is added in place of a carbonate of an alkali metal.
āāāāāāāā(Chemical Formula 4)āāāāāCO2 + 2CsOH -> Cs2CO3 + H2O
- Further, in the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, the separation-functional membrane is preferably supported on a hydrophilic porous membrane.
- First, when the separation-functional membrane is supported on a porous membrane, the strength of the facilitated CO2 transport membrane at the time of use is improved. As a result, in the case where the facilitated CO2 transport membrane is applied to a CO2 permeable membrane reactor (shift converter including a facilitated CO2 transport membrane), a sufficient membrane strength can be secured even when a pressure difference between both sides (inside and outside of a reactor) of the facilitated CO2 transport membrane is large (e.g. 2 atm or larger).
- Further, when the porous membrane supporting a separation-functional membrane as a gel membrane is hydrophilic, a gel membrane having reduced defects can be stably prepared, so that high selective permeability to hydrogen can be maintained. In general, when the porous membrane is hydrophobic, it is supposed that penetration of water contained in the gel membrane into the pores of the porous membrane and the resulting reduction of membrane performance can be prevented at 100Ā°C or lower, and a similar effect may be expected at 100Ā°C or higher where the amount of water in the gel membrane is small. Therefore, use of a hydrophobic porous membrane is recommended. However, in the case of the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, high selective permeability to hydrogen can be maintained with reduced defects by using a hydrophilic porous membrane for the following reason.
- When a cast solution including an aqueous solution containing the PVA/PAA salt copolymer and a CO2 carrier is cast on a hydrophilic porous membrane, pores of the porous membrane are filled with the solution, and a surface of the porous membrane is coated with the cast solution. When a separation-functional membrane is prepared by gelling the cast solution, not only a surface but also pores of the porous membrane are filled with the gel membrane, and therefore defects are hard to occur, leading to an increase in gel membrane production success rate.
- When considering the ratio of pore portions (porosity) and the situation in which the pore does not extend straight perpendicularly to the membrane surface but bends many times (bending rate), the gel membrane in pores provides a great resistance to gas permeation, leading to a reduction in gas permeance due to low permeability as compared to the gel membrane on the surface of the porous membrane. On the other hand, when a cast solution is cast on a hydrophobic porous membrane, pores of the porous membrane are not filled with the solution but only a surface of the porous membrane is coated with the cast solution, so that pores are filled with a gas, and therefore gas permeance in the gel layer on the hydrophobic porous membrane is considered to be higher for both H2 and CO2 as compared to a hydrophilic porous membrane.
- However, minute defects easily occur in the gel membrane on the membrane surface as compared to the gel membrane in pores, leading to a reduction in membrane production success rate. H2 is much smaller in molecular size than CO2, and therefore at a minute defect part, the permeance of H2 is remarkably larger than that of CO2. At a part other than the defect part, the permeance of CO2 passing by the facilitated transport mechanism is considerably larger than the permeance of H2 passing by the physical solution-diffusion mechanism.
- As a result, when a hydrophobic porous membrane is used, selectivity to hydrogen (CO2/H2) is reduced as compared to when a hydrophilic porous membrane is used. Therefore, stability and durability of the facilitated CO2 transport membrane are very important from the viewpoint of practical use, and it is more advantageous to use a hydrophilic porous membrane having high selectivity to hydrogen (CO2/H2).
- Further, the separation-functional membrane supported on the hydrophilic porous membrane is preferably covered with a hydrophobic porous membrane. The separation-functional membrane is thereby protected by the hydrophobic porous membrane, leading to a further increase in strength of the facilitated CO2 transport membrane at the time of use. The separation-functional membrane is covered with the hydrophobic porous membrane, and therefore even when steam is condensed on the membrane surface of the hydrophobic porous membrane, water is repelled and thereby prevented from penetrating the separation-functional membrane because the porous membrane is hydrophobic. Accordingly, the hydrophobic porous membrane can prevent a situation in which the CO2 carrier in the separation-functional membrane is diluted with water, and the diluted CO2 carrier flows out of the separation-functional membrane.
- A cause which hinders downsizing and reduction of the startup time in conventional shift converters is that a large amount of a shift catalyst is required due to the restriction from chemical equilibrium of the CO shift reaction expressed by the following (Chemical Formula 5). As an example, a reforming system for a 50 kW PAFC (phosphoric acid fuel cell) requires 20 L of a reforming catalyst, whereas the shift catalyst is required in an amount of 77 L, about 4 times the amount of the reforming catalyst. This is a major factor of hindering downsizing and reduction of the startup time in the shift converter.
āāāāāāāā(Chemical Formula 5)āāāāāCO + H2O ā CO2 + H2
- Thus, when the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features is applied to a CO2 permeable membrane reactor, carbon dioxide on the right side, which is produced through the CO shift reaction of the above (Chemical Formula 5), is efficiently removed to outside the shift converter, so that chemical equilibrium can be shifted to the hydrogen production side (right side) to obtain a high conversion rate at the same reaction temperature, and resultantly carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide can be removed beyond the limit imposed by equilibrium restriction. As a result, downsizing, reduction of the startup time and velocity enhancement (SV enhancement) in the shift converter can be achieved.
- Further, the present invention provides a method for producing the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a cast solution including an aqueous solution containing the hydrophilic polymer, the CO2 carrier and the CO2 hydration catalyst that is soluble in water; and casting the cast solution on a hydrophilic porous membrane and then gelling the cast solution to prepare the separation-functional membrane.
- According to the method for producing the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, since a cast solution is prepared beforehand in which the relative amounts of the CO2 carrier and the water-soluble CO2 hydration catalyst to the hydrophilic polymer is properly adjusted, proper adjustment of the blending ratio of the CO2 carrier and the CO2 hydration catalyst in the final gel membrane can be easily and conveniently achieved, so that performance of the membrane can be enhanced.
- Further, the present invention provides a method for separating CO2 using the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, with the CO2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, wherein a mixed gas containing CO2 and H2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is supplied to the facilitated CO2 transport membrane, and the CO2 passing through the facilitated CO2 transport membrane is separated from the mixed gas.
- Further, an example related to the present invention provides a CO2 separation apparatus comprising the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features, with the CO2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, wherein a mixed gas containing CO2 and H2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is supplied to the facilitated CO2 transport membrane, and the CO2 passing through the facilitated CO2 transport membrane is separated from the mixed gas.
- According to the facilitated CO2 transport membrane having the above-mentioned features and the method for producing the same, a facilitated CO2 transport membrane having an improved CO2 permeance and an improved CO2/H2 selectivity can be stably supplied. Particularly, the CO2 hydration catalyst has catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, so that a facilitated CO2 transport membrane that is applicable at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher and capable of achieving high selective permeability to hydrogen can be stably supplied in a decarbonation step in a hydrogen production process or the like.
- Further, according to the CO2 separation method and apparatus having the above-mentioned features, a facilitated CO2 transport membrane having high selective permeability to hydrogen at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is used, so that CO2 can be selectively separated with high efficiency from a mixed gas containing CO2 and H2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
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Fig. 1 is a sectional view schematically showing a structure in one embodiment of a facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to the present invention. -
Fig. 2 is a flow chart showing a method for producing a facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to the present invention. -
Fig. 3 is a table showing a list of constitutional conditions and membrane performance for separation-functional membranes of Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 used in experiments for evaluation of membrane performance of a facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to the present invention. -
Fig. 4 is a graph showing a CO2 permeance and a CO2/H2 selectivity in Examples 1 to 5 and Comparative Example 1 shown inFig. 3 . -
Fig. 5 is a graph showing a CO2 permeance and a CO2/H2 selectivity in Examples 1 and 6 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 shown inFig. 3 . -
Fig. 6 is a graph showing a CO2 permeance and a CO2/H2 selectivity in Examples 1 and 7 and Comparative Example 1 shown inFig. 3 . -
Fig. 7 is a table showing a list of constitutional conditions and membrane performance for separation-functional membranes of Examples 2, and 8 to 10 (example 10 also comparative) and Comparative Examples 1, 4 and 5 used in experiments for evaluation of membrane performance of a facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to the present invention. -
Fig. 8 is a graph showing a CO2 permeance and a CO2/H2 selectivity in Examples 2 and 8 and Comparative Examples 1 and 4 shown inFig. 7 . -
Figs. 9A and 9B are configuration diagrams each schematically showing an outlined configuration in one embodiment of a CO2 separation apparatus according to an example related to the present invention. - By extensively conducting studies, the inventors of the present application have found that when a gel membrane of a facilitated CO2 transport membrane, which contains a CO2 carrier and in which a reaction of CO2 with the CO2 carrier as expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 2) occurs, contains a catalyst for a CO2 hydration reaction as expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 1), one of elementary reactions of the above-mentioned reaction, the catalyst being capable of maintaining catalytic activity without being deactivated at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, the CO2 permeance is dramatically improved with respect to the H2 permeance even at such a high temperature, and the CO2/H2 selectivity is considerably improved as compared to a conventional facilitated CO2 transport membrane that does not contain the catalyst. Based on the above-mentioned new finding, the inventors of the present application have completed the invention of a facilitated CO2 transport membrane and a method for producing the same, and a method and an apparatus for separating CO2 as shown below.
- First, one embodiment of a facilitated CO2 transport membrane and a method for producing the same according to the present invention (hereinafter, referred to as "the present facilitated transport membrane" and "the present production method" as appropriate) will be described with reference to the drawings.
- The present facilitated transport membrane is a facilitated CO2 transport membrane including a separation-functional membrane that includes a water-containing hydrophilic polymer gel membrane containing a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, the facilitated CO2 transport membrane serving at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher and having a high CO2 permeance and a high CO2/H2 selectivity, and the facilitated CO2 transport membrane being applicable to a CO2 permeable membrane reactor or the like. Further, for stably achieving a high CO2/H2 selectivity, the present facilitated transport membrane includes a hydrophilic porous membrane as a support membrane that supports a gel membrane containing a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst.
- Specifically, the present facilitated transport membrane includes a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid (PVA/PAA) salt copolymer as a membrane material of the separation-functional membrane, a carbonate of an alkali metal such as cesium carbonate (CS2CO3) or rubidium carbonate (Rb2CO3) as the CO2 carrier, and a salt compound of oxo acid as the CO2 hydration catalyst. More specifically, for the CO2 hydration catalyst, a tellurite compound, a selenite compound, an orthosilicate compound or a molybdate compound is used. All of CO2 hydration catalysts used in this embodiment are soluble in water, and extremely thermally stable with a melting point of 400Ā°C or higher, and have catalytic activity at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher. The melting point of the CO2 hydration catalyst is only required to be higher than the upper limit of temperature variations in steps in a method for producing the present facilitated transport membrane as described later (e.g. the temperature in the drying step or thermal crosslinking temperature). When the melting point is, for example, about 200Ā°C or higher, a situation is avoided in which the CO2 hydration catalyst is sublimed in the course of the production process, leading to a reduction in concentration of the CO2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane.
- As an example, the present facilitated transport membrane is configured as a three-layer structure in which a hydrophilic
porous membrane 2 supporting a separation-functional membrane 1 is held between two hydrophobicporous membranes Fig. 1 . The separation-functional membrane 1 as a gel membrane is supported on the hydrophilicporous membrane 2 and has a certain level of mechanical strength, and therefore is not necessarily required to be held between the two hydrophobicporous membranes porous membrane 2 in a cylindrical shape. Therefore, the present facilitated transport membrane is not necessarily a flat plate-shaped one. - The separation-functional membrane contains the PVA/PAA salt copolymer in an amount falling within a range of about 10 to 80% by weight, and the CO2 carrier in an amount falling within a range of about 20 to 90% by weight based on the total weight of the PVA/PAA salt copolymer and the CO2 carrier in the separation-functional membrane.
- Further, the separation-functional membrane contains the CO2 hydration catalyst, for example, in an amount of 0.01 times or more, preferably 0.02 times or more, further preferably 0.025 times or more the amount of the CO2 carrier in terms of molar number.
- The hydrophilic porous membrane preferably has heat resistance to a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, mechanical strength and adhesion with the separation-functional membrane (gel membrane) in addition to hydrophilicity, and preferably has a porosity (void ratio) of 55% or more and a pore size falling within a range of 0.1 to 1 Āµm. In this embodiment, a hydrophilized tetrafluoroethylene polymer (PTFE) porous membrane is used as a hydrophilic porous membrane that satisfies the above-mentioned requirements.
- The hydrophobic porous membrane preferably has heat resistance to a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, mechanical strength and adhesion with the separation-functional membrane (gel membrane) in addition to hydrophobicity, and preferably has a porosity (void ratio) of 55% or more and a pore size falling within a range of 0.1 to 1 Āµm. In this embodiment, a non-hydrophilized tetrafluoroethylene polymer (PTFE) porous membrane is used as a hydrophobic porous membrane that satisfies the above-mentioned requirements.
- One embodiment of a method for producing the present facilitated transport membrane (the present production method) will now be described with reference to
Fig. 2 . In the following descriptions a PVA/PAA salt copolymer is used as the hydrophilic polymer, cesium carbonate (CS2CO3) is used as the CO2 carrier, and a tellurite (e.g. potassium tellurite (K2TeO3)) is used as the CO2 hydration catalyst. The amounts of the hydrophilic polymer, the CO2 carrier and the CO2 hydration catalyst are illustrative, and show amounts used in sample preparation in examples described below. - First, a cast solution including an aqueous solution containing a PVA/PAA salt copolymer, a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst is prepared (step 1). More specifically, 2 g of a PVA/PAA salt copolymer (e.g. provisional name: SS Gel manufactured by Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Company Limited), 4.67 g of cesium carbonate, and a tellurite in an amount of 0.025 times the amount of cesium carbonate in terms of molar number are added to 80 g of water, and the resultant mixture is stirred until they are dissolved, thereby obtaining a cast solution.
- Next, the cast solution obtained in
step 1 is cast on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane side surface of a layered porous membrane by an applicator (step 2), the layered porous membrane being obtained by joining two membranes: a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane (e.g. WPW-020-80 manufactured by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER, INC.; thickness: 80 Āµm; pore size: 0.2 Āµm; void ratio: about 75%) and a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane (e.g. FLUOROPORE FP010 manufactured by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER, INC.; thickness: 60 Āµm; pore size: 0.1 Āµm; void ratio: 55%). The casting thickness in samples of examples and comparative examples described later is 500 Āµm. Here, the cast solution penetrates pores in the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane, but is inhibited from penetrating at the boundary surface of the hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane, so that the cast solution does not permeate to the opposite surface of the layered porous membrane, and there is no cast solution on a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane side surface of the layered porous membrane. This makes handling easy. - Next, the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane after casting is naturally dried at room temperature, and the cast solution is then gelled to produce a separation-functional membrane (step 3). Here, gelation means that the cast solution as a polymer dispersion liquid is dried into a solid form, and the gel membrane is a solid membrane produced by the gelation, and is clearly distinguished from a liquid membrane.
- In the present production method, the cast solution is cast on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane side surface of the layered porous membrane in
step 2, and therefore the separation-functional membrane is not only formed on a surface (cast surface) of the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane but also formed so as to fill pores instep 3, so that defects (minute defects such as pinholes) are hard to occur, leading to an increase in membrane production success rate of the separation-functional membrane. It is desirable to further thermally crosslink the naturally dried PTFE porous membrane at about 120Ā°C for about 2 hours instep 3. All of samples in examples and comparative examples described later are thermally crosslinked. - Next, a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane identical to the hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane of the layered porous membrane used in
step 2 is superimposed on a gel layer side surface of the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane obtained instep 3 to obtain the present facilitated transport membrane of three layer structure including a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane / a separation-functional membrane supported on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane / a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane as schematically shown inFig. 1 (step 4).Fig. 1 schematically and linearly shows a state in which the separation-functional membrane 1 fills pores of the hydrophilic PTFEporous membrane 2. - In the present production method, the blending ratio of the CO2 carrier and the CO2 hydration catalyst can be adjusted in
step 1 of producing a cast solution, and therefore, as compared to a case where after formation of a gel membrane that does not contain at least one of the CO2 carrier and the CO2 hydration catalyst, at least one of the CO2 carrier and the CO2 hydration catalyst is added into the gel membrane, adjustment of the blending ratio can be more accurately and easily performed, leading to enhancement of membrane performance. - Thus, the present facilitated transport membrane prepared by following
steps 1 to 4 can exhibit extremely high selective permeability to hydrogen even at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, for example a CO2 permeance of about 3 Ć 10-5 mol/(m2ā¢sā¢kPa) (= 90 GPU) or more and a CO2/H2 selectivity of about 100 or more. - Hereinafter, specific membrane performance of the present facilitated transport membrane is evaluated by comparing Examples 1 to 7 in which the separation-functional membrane contains a CO2 hydration catalyst with Comparative Examples 1 and 2 in which the separation-functional membrane does not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst.
- The samples in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 below were prepared in accordance with the present production method described above. The weights of the solvent (water), the hydrophilic polymer and the CO2 carrier in the cast solution prepared in
step 1 are the same among Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2. As the hydrophilic polymer, a PVA/PAA salt copolymer was used. As the CO2 carrier, cesium carbonate (CS2CO3) is used except for Example 6, and the weight ratio of cesium carbonate to the total weight of the PVA/PAA salt copolymer and cesium carbonate (carrier concentration) is 70% by weight in each of the examples and comparative examples. In Example 6, rubidium carbonate (Rb2CO3) is used as the CO2 carrier, and the weight ratio of rubidium carbonate to the total weight of the PVA/PAA salt copolymer (2 g) identical to that in Example 1 and rubidium carbonate (4.67 g) (carrier concentration) is 70% by weight. - In Examples 1, 6 and 7, potassium tellurite (melting point: 465Ā°C) was used as the CO2 hydration catalyst. In Examples 2 to 5, lithium tellurite (Li2O Te, melting point: about 750Ā°C), potassium selenite (K2O Se, melting point: 875Ā°C), sodium arsenite (NaO2As, melting point: 615Ā°C) and sodium orthosilicate (Na4O4Si, melting point: 1018Ā°C) were used, respectively, as the CO2 hydration catalyst. The molar ratio of the CO2 hydration catalyst to the CO2 carrier is 0.025 in Examples 1 to 5, 0.05 in Example 6, and 0.2 in Example 7.
- The sample in Comparative Example 1 was prepared in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the cast solution prepared in
step 1 in the production method described above did not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst. The sample in Comparative Example 2 was prepared in the same manner as in Example 6 except that the cast solution prepared instep 1 in the production method described above did not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst. - An experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 will now be described.
- Each sample was used while being fixed between a supply side chamber and a permeate side chamber in a stainless steel flow type gas permeation cell using a fluororubber gasket as a seal material. Experimental conditions are the same for the samples, and the temperature of the inside of the cell is fixed at 130Ā°C.
- The supply side gas supplied to the supply side chamber is a mixed gas including CO2, H2 and H2O (steam), and the ratio (mol%) among them is CO2 : H2 : H2O = 23.6 : 35.4 : 41.0. The flow rate of the supply side gas is 3.47 Ć 10-2 mol/min, and the supply side pressure is 600 kPa (A). (A) means an absolute pressure. Accordingly, the CO2 partial pressure on the supply side is 142 kPa (A). The pressure of the supply side chamber is adjusted with a back pressure regulator provided on the downstream side of a cooling trap at some midpoint in an exhaust gas discharging passage.
- On the other hand, the pressure of the permeate side chamber is atmospheric pressure, H2O (steam) is used as a sweep gas made to flow into the permeate side chamber, and the flow rate thereof is 7.77 Ć 10-3 mol/min. For sending the sweep gas discharged from the permeate side chamber to a gas chromatograph on the downstream side, an Ar gas is inpoured, steam in the gas containing the Ar gas is removed by the cooling trap, the composition of the gas after passing through the cooling trap is quantitatively determined by the gas chromatograph, the permeance [mol/(m2ā¢sā¢kPa)] of each of CO2 and H2 is calculated from the composition and the flow rate of Ar in the gas, and from the ratio thereof, the CO2/H2 selectivity is calculated.
- In the evaluation experiment described above, the experiment apparatus has a pre-heater for heating the gas and the flow type gas permeation cell with a sample membrane fixed therein is placed in a thermostatic oven in order to keep constant the use temperature of the present facilitated transport membrane of each sample and the temperatures of the supply side gas and the sweep gas.
- Next, comparison of membrane performance obtained in experiment results in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 is made.
Fig. 3 shows a list of constitutional conditions (CO2 carrier, CO2 hydration catalyst, molar ratio of CO2 carrier to CO2 hydration catalyst, hydrophilic polymer) and membrane performance (CO2 permeance, H2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity) for separation-functional membranes of the samples in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2. - First, comparison of membrane performance is made among Examples 1 to 5 and Comparative Example 1. Here, comparison of membrane performance associated with presence/absence of the CO2 hydration catalyst and the type thereof is made.
Fig. 4 shows, in the form of a graph, the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity in Examples 1 to 5 and Comparative Example 1. It is apparent fromFigs. 3 and4 that since the separation-functional membrane contains a CO2 hydration catalyst, the CO2 permeance increases by a factor of 1.14 to 1.76, while the H2 permeance increases by a factor of 0.72 to 1.29, and the increasing rate of CO2 permeance is greater than that of H2 permeance, so that the CO2/H2 selectivity is improved to fall within a range of 104 to 135 as compared to a CO2/H2 selectivity of 79.2 in Comparative Example 1. - While from
Fig. 4 , all of the CO2 hydration catalysts are confirmed to improve both the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity, the CO2 permeance is remarkably improved when a tellurite is used. - Since the CO2 hydration catalyst is a catalyst for increasing the reaction rate of a CO2 hydration reaction expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 1), it is considered that when the separation-functional membrane contains a CO2 hydration catalyst, a reaction of CO2 with a CO2 carrier, which includes the CO2 hydration reaction as one of elementary reactions and which is expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 2), is accelerated, leading to an increase in CO2 permeance by the facilitated transport mechanism. This is consistent with the experiment results shown in
Fig. 3 . However, since H2 does not react with the CO2 carrier as described above, the H2 permeation mechanism may be based on the solution-diffusion mechanism rather than the facilitated transport mechanism, and it is considered that the H2 permeance is not directly affected by presence/absence of the CO2 hydration catalyst, the blending ratio and type thereof, and the like. Further, the samples in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 are different in constitutional conditions for the separation-functional membrane, and are therefore each individually prepared. Therefore, differences in measurement value of H2 permeance among the samples are considered to mainly result from individual differences (variations) in membrane quality of the hydrophilic polymer gel membrane. It is to be noted that the H2 permeance may be indirectly affected by influences on membrane quality of the hydrophilic polymer gel membrane given by differences in amount, type and the like of the CO2 carrier and the CO2 hydration catalyst in addition to the individual differences in membrane quality. - Next, comparison of membrane performance is made among Examples 1 and 6 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2. Here, comparison of membrane performance associated with presence/absence of the CO2 hydration catalyst and the type the CO2 carrier is made.
Fig. 5 shows, in the form of a graph, the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity in Examples 1 and 6 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2.Fig. 5 shows that when the separation-functional membrane does not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst, there is no significant difference in performance due to a difference in CO2 carrier with the separation-functional membrane having a CO2 permeance of 2.83 to 2.84 Ć 10-5 (mol/(m2ā¢sā¢kPa)), a H2 permeance of 3.05 to 3.58 Ć 10-7 (mol/(m2ā¢sā¢kPa)) and a CO2/H2 selectivity of 79.2 to 93.1 in both cases where the CO2 carrier is cesium carbonate and where the CO2 carrier is rubidium carbonate. When the CO2 carrier is cesium carbonate, performance is greatly improved with the CO2 permeance increasing by a factor of 1.53, the H2 permeance increasing by a factor of 1.02 and the CO2/H2 selectivity increasing by a factor of 1.50 because the separation-functional membrane contains a CO2 hydration catalyst. When the CO2 carrier is rubidium carbonate, performance is greatly improved as in the case where the CO2 carrier is cesium carbonate, with the CO2 permeance increasing by a factor of 1.68, the H2 permeance increasing by a factor of 0.83 and the CO2/H2 selectivity increasing by a factor of 2.04. The reason why in Example 6, the H2 permeance decreases to 0.83 times that in Comparative Example 2 may be because of individual differences in membrane quality of the hydrophilic polymer gel membrane. - Next, comparison of membrane performance is made among Examples 1 and 7 and Comparative Example 1. Here, comparison of membrane performance associated with presence/absence of the CO2 hydration catalyst, and the blending ratio thereof (molar ratio to cesium carbonate) is made.
Fig. 6 shows, in the form of a graph, the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity in Examples 1 and 7 and Comparative Example 1. - When comparison is made among Comparative Example 1 and Examples 1 and 7, it is apparent that both the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity are improved as the blending ratio of the CO2 hydration catalyst (potassium tellurite) increases.
- As a result of measuring the CO2 permeance with another sample in which the molar ratio of the CO2 hydration catalyst to the CO2 carrier is decreased to 0.01 when the hydrophilic polymer is a PVA/PAA salt copolymer, the CO2 carrier is cesium carbonate and the CO2 hydration catalyst is potassium tellurite, aside from Examples 1 and 7, it has been confirmed that the CO2 permeance was improved to 3.74 Ć 10-5 (mol/(m2ā¢sā¢kPa)), i.e. 1.32 times the CO2 permeance in Comparative Example 1.
- While all of the separation-functional membranes in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 are gel membranes, Comparative Example 3 having a liquid membrane (aqueous solution) as a separation-functional membrane was prepared as another comparative example. The aqueous solution of a separation-functional membrane in Comparative Example 3 does not contain the PVA/PAA salt copolymer used in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Example 1. In Comparative Example 3, cesium carbonate was used as a CO2 carrier and potassium tellurite was used as a CO2 hydration catalyst similarly to Example 1. Hereinafter, a method for preparing Comparative Example 3 will be described.
- To an aqueous cesium carbonate solution having a molar concentration of 2 mol/L was added potassium tellurite in an amount of 0.025 times the amount of cesium carbonate in terms of molar number, and the resultant mixture was stirred until potassium tellurite was dissolved, thereby obtaining an aqueous solution for a separation-functional membrane (liquid membrane). Thereafter, instead of the casting method using an applicator in
step 2 in the present production method, a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane was immersed in the aqueous solution for a separation-functional membrane (liquid membrane) for 30 minutes, and the hydrophilic PTFE membrane soaked with the aqueous solution was then placed on a hydrophobic PTFE membrane, and dried at room temperature for half a day or longer. Similarly to Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2, another hydrophobic PTFE membrane is placed on the hydrophilic PTFE membrane to form a three-layer structure with the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane and the separation-functional membrane (liquid membrane) held between the hydrophobic PTFE membranes at the time of an experiment for evaluation of membrane performance. - However, in the case of the liquid membrane sample of Comparative Example 3, it was impossible to set the supply side pressure of 600 kPa (A), i.e. an experimental condition similar to that in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2, and membrane performance could not be evaluated. That is, it became evident that a necessary differential pressure cannot be maintained because the difference in pressure between the supply side and the permeate side in the separation-functional membrane (liquid membrane) cannot be endured.
- Thus, by comparing membrane performance between Examples 1 to 7 in which the separation-functional membrane contains a CO2 hydration catalyst and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 in which the separation-functional membrane does not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst, an effect of considerably improving the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity was confirmed as the present facilitated transport membrane includes a CO2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane. Here, the facilitated CO2 transport membrane has such characteristics that in a certain thickness range, thickness dependency is kept low, so that the permeation rate of CO2 hardly decreases even when the thickness increases. On the other hand, H2 passes through the separation-functional membrane by the solution-diffusion mechanism as described above, and therefore its permeation rate tends to be inversely proportional to the membrane thickness. Therefore, further improvement of the CO2/H2 selectivity is expected due to the synergistic effect of the advantage that the effect of improving the CO2 permeance due to presence of a CO2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane is attained without depending on the membrane thickness and the advantage that the H2 permeance is reduced as the thickness is increased.
- Results of evaluating membrane performance in Examples 8 and 9 in which the separation-functional membrane prepared with a thickness that is about 2 times the thickness in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 contains a CO2 hydration catalyst and Comparative Example 4 in which the separation-functional membrane does not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst will now be described.
- The samples in Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4 were prepared in accordance with the present production method described above. It is to be noted that a series of
steps including step 2 andstep 3 were repeated twice for increasing the thickness of the separation-functional membrane. The weights of the solvent (water), the hydrophilic polymer and the CO2 carrier in the cast solution prepared instep 1 are the same among Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4, and identical to those in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2. In each of Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4, cesium carbonate (Cs2CO3) is used as the CO2 carrier, and the weight ratio of cesium carbonate to the total weight of the PVA/PAA salt copolymer and cesium carbonate (carrier concentration) is 70% by weight. - In Examples 8 and 9, lithium tellurite and potassium molybdate (K2O4Mo, melting point: about 919Ā°C) were used in this order as the CO2 hydration catalyst. The molar ratio of the CO2 hydration catalyst to the CO2 carrier is 0.025 in Example 8, and 0.1 in Example 9. The sample in Comparative Example 4 was prepared in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the cast solution prepared in
step 1 in the production method described above did not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst. - An experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4 is identical to the experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2 described above including the gas composition and ratio of the supply side gas, the gas flow rate, the pressure, the use temperature and so on.
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Fig. 7 shows a list of constitutional conditions (CO2 carrier, CO2 hydration catalyst, molar ratio of CO2 carrier to CO2 hydration catalyst, hydrophilic polymer) and membrane performance (CO2 permeance, H2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity) for separation-functional membranes of the samples in Examples 2, 8 and 9 and Comparative Examples 1 and 4.Fig. 8 shows, in the form of a graph, the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity in Examples 2 and 8 and Comparative Examples 1 and 4. - First, when comparison of membrane performance is made between Comparative Example 4 and Comparative Example 1, the membrane thickness in Comparative Example 4 is about 2 times the membrane thickness in Comparative Example 1, but there is no difference in other constitutional conditions of the separation-functional membrane, and therefore there is substantially no difference in CO2 permeance as it is not significantly influenced by the membrane thickness, whereas the H2 permeance is much lower in Comparative Example 4 than in Comparative Example 1 due to the about 2-fold difference in membrane thickness. As a result, the CO2/H2 selectivity is higher in Comparative Example 4 than in Comparative Example 1. Similarly, when comparison of membrane performance is made between Example 8 and Example 2, the membrane thickness in Example 8 is about 2 times the membrane thickness in Example 2, but there is no difference in other constitutional conditions of the separation-functional membrane, and therefore there is substantially no difference in CO2 permeance as it is not significantly influenced by the membrane thickness, and an effect of improving the CO2 permeance by the CO2 hydration catalyst is similarly attained, whereas the H2 permeance is much lower in Example 8 than in Example 2 due to the about 2-fold difference in membrane thickness. As a result, the CO2/H2 selectivity is higher in Example 8 than in Example 2. When comparison of membrane performance is made between Example 8 and Comparative Example 4, it is apparent that similarly to considerable improvement of the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity in Example 2 as compared to Comparative Example 1, the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity are considerably improved even when the thickness of the separation-functional membrane is large. That is, it has become evident that the effect of improving the CO2 permeance due to presence of a CO2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane is attained without depending on the thickness of the separation-functional membrane in a certain thickness range.
- Next, when comparison is made between Example 9 and Comparative Example 4, an effect of improving the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity due to presence of a CO2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane can be confirmed even with a membrane thickness that is about 2 times the membrane thickness in Examples 1 to 7 also when the CO2 hydration catalyst is potassium molybdate.
- Here, the CO2 hydration catalyst in each of Examples 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 and Example 10 described later is a salt compound of oxo acid of a
group 16 element, the CO2 hydration catalyst in Example 4 (comparative) is a salt compound of oxo acid of agroup 15 element, the CO2 hydration catalyst in Example 5 is a salt compound of oxo acid of agroup 14 element, and the CO2 hydration catalyst in Example 9 is a salt compound of oxo acid of agroup 6 element. - In the examples related to the present invention, the CO2 hydration catalyst is not limited to the salt compounds of oxo acid used in Examples 1 to 9 as long as it is a compound as defined in
claim 1. Here, as an example of conditions suitable for the present facilitated transport membrane as a CO2 hydration catalyst, the substance is soluble in water, and extremely thermally stable with a melting point of 200Ā°C or higher, and has catalytic activity at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher. - In the above-mentioned embodiment, a configuration has been shown in which a hydrogel of a PVA/PAA salt copolymer as a hydrophilic polymer is used as a membrane material of a separation-functional membrane, and a hydrophilic porous membrane is used as a porous membrane that supports the separation-functional membrane. However, since the hydrophilic polymer gel membrane contains a CO2 hydration catalyst, the effect of improving the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity can also be exhibited, although varying in level, when a hydrophilic polymer other than PVA/PAA salt copolymers, such as, for example, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) or a polyacrylic acid (PAA) salt is used (not according to invention), or when a hydrophobic porous membrane is used as a porous membrane that supports the separation-functional membrane.
- Results of evaluating membrane performance in Example 10 (comparative) in which the separation-functional membrane contains a CO2 hydration catalyst and Comparative Example 5 in which the separation-functional membrane does not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst, with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) being used as a hydrophilic polymer in both Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5, will now be described.
- The samples in Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5 were prepared in accordance with the present production method described above. It is to be noted that similarly to Examples 8 and 9 and Comparative Example 4, a series of
steps including step 2 andstep 3 were repeated twice for increasing the thickness of the separation-functional membrane. The weights of the solvent (water), the hydrophilic polymer and the CO2 carrier in the cast solution prepared instep 1 are the same between Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5. In each of Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5, cesium carbonate (CS2CO3) is used as the CO2 carrier, and the weight ratio of cesium carbonate to the total weight of PVA and cesium carbonate (carrier concentration) is 46% by weight. The polymerization degree of polyvinyl alcohol used is about 2000, and the porous membrane supporting the separation-functional membrane is a PTFE porous membrane having a pore size of 0.1 Āµm and a thickness of 50 Āµm. - In Example 10 (comparative), potassium tellurite is used as a CO2 hydration catalyst, and the molar ratio of the CO2 hydration catalyst to the CO2 carrier is 0.2. The sample in Comparative Example 5 was prepared in the same manner as in Example 10 except that the cast solution prepared in
step 1 in the production method described above did not contain a CO2 hydration catalyst. - An experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5 is identical to the experiment method for evaluating membrane performance of the samples in Examples 1 to 9 and Comparative Examples 1, 2 and 4 described above except for the ratio of gas components of the supply side gas, the supply side gas flow rate, the supply side pressure and the use temperature. The ratio (mol%) among CO2, H2 and H2O (steam) in the supply side gas supplied to the supply side chamber is CO2 : H2 : H2O = 5.0 : 48.7 : 46.3. The flow rate of the supply side gas is 6.14 Ć 10-2 mol/min, the supply side pressure is 300 kPa (A), and the temperature of the inside of the flow type gas permeation cell is fixed at 120Ā°C.
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Fig. 7 shows a list of constitutional conditions (CO2 carrier, CO2 hydration catalyst, molar ratio of CO2 carrier to CO2 hydration catalyst, hydrophilic polymer) and membrane performance (CO2 permeance, H2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity) for separation-functional membranes of the samples in Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5. - When comparison of membrane performance is made between Example 10 (comparative) and Comparative Example 5, it is apparent that the CO2 permeance and CO2/H2 selectivity are considerably improved. From this result, it has become evident that the effect of improving the CO2 permeance due to presence of a CO2 hydration catalyst in the separation-functional membrane is attained also when polyvinyl alcohol is used as the hydrophilic polymer. Accordingly, it is well conceivable that the effect of improving the CO2 permeance is attained irrespective of the composition of the hydrophilic polymer.
- A CO2 separation apparatus and a CO2 separation method, to which the facilitated CO2 transport membrane described in the first embodiment is applied, will now be described with reference to
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Figs. 9A and 9B are each a sectional view schematically showing an outlined structure of a CO2 separation apparatus 10 of this embodiment. In this embodiment, as an example, a facilitated CO2 transport membrane modified into a cylindrical structure is used instead of the facilitated CO2 transport membrane of flat plate structure described in the first embodiment.Fig. 9A shows a cross section structure at a cross section perpendicular to the axial center of a facilitated CO2 transport membrane (the present facilitated transport membrane) 11 of cylindrical structure, andFig. 9B shows a cross section structure at a cross section extending through the axial center of the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11. - The present facilitated
transport membrane 11 shown inFigs. 9A and 9B has a structure in which a separation-functional membrane 1 is supported on the outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical hydrophilic ceramicporous membrane 2. Similarly to the first embodiment, the separation-functional membrane 1 includes a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid (PVA/PAA) salt copolymer as a membrane material of the separation-functional membrane, a carbonate of an alkali metal such as cesium carbonate (CS2CO3) or rubidium carbonate (Rb2CO3) as the CO2 carrier, and a tellurite compound, a selenite compound, an aresenite compound and an orthosilicate compound as the CO2 hydration catalyst. The membrane structure in this embodiment is different from the membrane structure in the first embodiment in that the separation-functional membrane 1 and the hydrophilic ceramicporous membrane 2 are not held between two hydrophobic porous membranes. The method for producing the separation-functional membrane 1 and membrane performance thereof in this embodiment are basically similar to those in the first embodiment except for the above-mentioned difference, and therefore duplicate explanations are omitted. - As shown in
Figs. 9A and 9B , the present cylindrical facilitatedtransport membrane 11 is housed in a bottomedcylindrical container 12, and asupply side space 13 surrounded by the inner wall of thecontainer 12 and the separation-functional membrane 1 and apermeate side space 14 surrounded by the inner wall of the ceramicporous membrane 2 are formed. Afirst feeding port 15 for feeding a source gas FG into thesupply side space 13 and asecond feeding port 16 for feeding a sweep gas SG into thepermeate side space 14 are provided on one ofbottom portions container 12, and afirst discharge port 17 for discharging a CO2-separated source gas EG from thesupply side space 13 and asecond discharge port 18 for discharging from the permeate side space 14 a discharge gas SG' including a mixture of a CO2-containing permeate gas PG passing through the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 and the sweep gas SG are provided on the other of thebottom portions container 12. Thecontainer 12 is made of, for example, stainless steel, and although not illustrated, the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 is fixed in thecontainer 12 with a fluororubber gasket interposed as a seal material between opposite ends of the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 and the inner walls of thebottom portions container 12 similarly to the experiment apparatus described in the first embodiment as an example. The method for fixing the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 and the sealing method are not limited to the methods described above. - In
Fig. 9B , each of thefirst feeding port 15 and thefirst discharge port 17 is provided in each of thesupply side spaces 13 illustrated separately on the left and the right inFig. 9B . However, since thesupply side spaces 13 annularly communicate with each other as shown inFig. 9A , thefirst feeding port 15 and thefirst discharge port 17 may be provided in one of the left and rightsupply side spaces 13. Further,Fig. 9B shows as an example a configuration in which thefirst feeding port 15 and thesecond feeding port 16 are provided on one of thebottom portions first discharge port 17 and thesecond discharge port 18 are provided on the other of thebottom portions first feeding port 15 and thesecond discharge port 18 are provided on one of thebottom portions first discharge port 17 and thesecond feeding port 16 are provided on the other of thebottom portions - In the CO2 separation method of this embodiment, the source gas FG including a mixed gas containing CO2 and H2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is fed into the
supply side space 13 and thereby supplied to the supply side surface of the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11, so that a CO2 carrier contained in the separation-functional membrane 1 of the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 is reacted with CO2 in the source gas FG to allow selective passage of CO2 at a high selection ratio to hydrogen, and the CO2-separated source gas EG having an increased H2 concentration is discharged from thesupply side space 13. - The reaction of CO2 with the CO2 carrier requires supply of water (H2O) as shown in the above reaction formula of (Chemical Formula 2), and as the amount of water contained in the separation-
functional membrane 1 increases, chemical equilibrium is shifted to the product side (right side), so that permeation of CO2 is facilitated. When the temperature of the source gas FG is a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, the separation-functional membrane 1 that is in contact with the source gas FG is also exposed to a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, so that water contained in the separation-functional membrane 1 is evaporated and passes into thepermeate side space 14 similarly to CO2, and therefore it is necessary to supply steam (H2O) to thesupply side space 13. The steam may be contained in the source gas FG, or may be supplied to thesupply side space 13 independently of the source gas FG. In the latter case, steam (H2O) passing into thepermeate side space 14 may be separated from the discharge gas SG' and circulated into thesupply side space 13. - For the CO2 separation apparatus shown in
Figs. 9A and 9B , a configuration example has been described in which thesupply side space 13 is formed at the outside while thepermeate side space 14 is formed at the inside of the present cylindrical facilitatedtransport membrane 11, but thesupply side space 13 may be formed at the inside while thepermeate side space 14 may be formed at the outside. The present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 may have a structure in which the separation-functional membrane 1 is supported on the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical hydrophilic ceramicporous membrane 2. Further, the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 used in the CO2 separation apparatus is not necessarily cylindrical, but may be in the form of a tube having a cross-sectional shape other than a circular shape, and the present facilitated transport membrane of flat plate structure as shown inFig. 1 may be used. - As an application example of the CO2 separation apparatus, a shift converter (CO2 permeable membrane reactor) including the present facilitated transport membrane will now be briefly described.
- For example, when a CO2 permeable membrane reactor is formed using the CO2 separation apparatus 10 shown in
Figs. 9A and 9B , thesupply side space 13 can be used as a shift converter by filling thesupply side space 13 with a shift catalyst. - The CO2 permeable membrane reactor is an apparatus in which, for example, a source gas FG produced in a steam reforming device and having H2 as a main component is received in the
supply side space 13 filled with a shift catalyst, and carbon monoxide (CO) contained in the source gas FG is removed through a CO shift reaction expressed by the above (Chemical Formula 5). CO2 produced through the CO shift reaction is allowed to permeate to thepermeate side space 14 selectively by means of the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 and removed, whereby chemical equilibrium can be shifted to the hydrogen production side, so that CO and CO2 can be removed beyond the limit imposed by equilibrium restriction with a high conversion rate at the same reaction temperature. A source gas EG freed of CO and CO2 and having H2 as a main component is taken out from thesupply side space 13. - Since the performance of the shift catalyst used for the CO shift reaction tends to decrease with a decrease in temperature, the use temperature is considered to be 100Ā°C at minimum, and the temperature of the source gas FG supplied to the supply side surface of the present facilitated
transport membrane 11 is 100Ā°C or higher. Therefore, the source gas FG is adjusted to a temperature suitable for catalytic activity of the shift catalyst, then fed into thesupply side space 13 filled with the shift catalyst, subjected to the CO shift reaction (exothermic reaction) in thesupply side space 13, and supplied to the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11. - On the other hand, the sweep gas SG is used for maintaining the driving force for the permeation through the present facilitated
transport membrane 11 by lowering the partial pressure of the CO2-containing permeate gas PG which permeates the present facilitatedtransport membrane 11 and for discharging the permeate gas PG to the outside. It is to be noted that when the partial pressure of the source gas FG is sufficiently high, it is not necessary to feed the sweep gas SG because a partial pressure difference serving as the driving force for permeation is obtained even if the sweep gas SG is not fed. As a gas species used for the sweep gas, steam (H2O) can also be used as in the case of the experiment for evaluation of membrane performance in the first embodiment, and further an inert gas such as Ar can also be used. The sweep gas SG is not limited to a specific gas species. - Hereinafter, other embodiments will be described.
- <1> The above-mentioned embodiments have been described based on the assumption that a carbonate, a bicarbonate or a hydroxide of an alkali metal such as cesium or rubidium is used as a CO2 carrier. However, since the present invention is characterized in that a hydrophilic polymer gel membrane that forms a separation-functional membrane contains a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, the CO2 carrier is not limited to a specific CO2 carrier as long as it is such a CO2 carrier that a reaction of CO2 with the CO2 carrier can be accelerated by a CO2 hydration catalyst to attain membrane performance comparable to or higher than the membrane performance (selective permeability of CO2 to hydrogen) shown as an example in the first embodiment.
- <2> When used in the separation-functional membrane of the present facilitated transport membrane, the CO2 hydration catalyst is preferably one that has a melting point of 200Ā°C or higher and is soluble in water similarly to the above-mentioned compounds. While the upper limit of the range of temperatures at which the CO2 hydration catalyst exhibits catalytic activity is not particularly limited, there is no problem as long as it is higher than the upper limit of the range of temperatures such as the use temperature of the present facilitated transport membrane in an apparatus including the present facilitated transport membrane, and the temperature of a source gas supplied to the supply side surface of the present facilitated transport membrane. The hydrophilic porous membrane or the like that forms the present facilitated transport membrane is also required to have resistance in a similar temperature range as a matter of course. When the present facilitated transport membrane is used at a temperature lower than 100Ā°C, the CO2 hydration catalyst is not necessarily required to have catalytic activity at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- <3> In the first embodiment, the present facilitated transport membrane is prepared by a method in which a cast solution including an aqueous solution containing the PVA/PAA salt copolymer, a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst is cast on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane, and then gelled, but the present facilitated transport membrane may be prepared by a preparation method other than the above-mentioned preparation method. For example, the present facilitated transport membrane may be prepared by forming a hydrophilic polymer gel membrane that does not contain a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst, followed by impregnating the gel membrane with an aqueous solution containing a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst.
- <4> In the first embodiment, the present facilitated transport membrane has a three-layer structure including a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane, a separation-functional membrane supported on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane and a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane, but the support structure of the present facilitated transport membrane is not limited to such a three-layer structure. For example, the present facilitated transport membrane may have a two-layer structure including a hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane and a separation-functional membrane supported on a hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane. In the first embodiment, a case has been described where the separation-functional membrane is supported on the hydrophilic PTFE porous membrane, but the separation-functional membrane may be supported on the hydrophobic PTFE porous membrane.
- <5> In the second embodiment, a CO2 permeable membrane reactor has been described as an application example of the CO2 separation apparatus including the present facilitated transport membrane, but the CO2 separation apparatus including the present facilitated transport membrane can also be used in a decarbonation step in a hydrogen production process other than that in the membrane reactor, and is further applicable to processes other than the hydrogen production process, and the CO2 separation apparatus is not limited to the application example shown in the above-mentioned embodiment. The supply side gas (source gas) supplied to the present facilitated transport membrane is not limited to the mixed gas shown as an example in the above-mentioned embodiments.
- <6> The mixing ratios of the components in the composition of the present facilitated transport membrane, the dimensions of the portions of the membrane and the like as shown as examples in the above-mentioned embodiments are examples given for easy understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to facilitated CO2 transport membranes having such values, as long as the values are according to
claim 1. - A facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to the present invention can be used for separating CO2 from a mixed gas including CO2 and H2 at a high selection ratio to hydrogen in a decarbonation step in a hydrogen production process, a CO2 permeable membrane reactor, and so on, and is useful particularly for separation of CO2 at a high temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
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- A facilitated CO2 transport membrane comprising a separation-functional membrane that includes a hydrophilic polymer gel membrane containing a CO2 carrier and a CO2 hydration catalyst, characterized in thatthe hydrophilic polymer gel membrane comprises a polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid salt copolymer,the CO2 hydration catalyst contains at least one of a tellurite compound, a selenite compound, an orthosilicate compound and a molybdate compound,the polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid salt copolymer is contained in an amount falling within a range of about 10 to 80% by weight based on the total weight of the polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid salt copolymer and the CO2 carrier in the separation-functional membrane,the CO2 carrier is contained in an amount falling within a range of about 20 to 90% by weight based on the total weight of the polyvinyl alcohol-polyacrylic acid salt copolymer and the CO2 carrier in the separation-functional membrane, andthe CO2 hydration catalyst is contained in an amount of 0.01 times or more the amount of the CO2 carrier in terms of molar number in the separation-functional membrane.
- The facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to claim 1, wherein the CO2 hydration catalyst has catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher.
- The facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the CO2 hydration catalyst has a melting point of 200Ā°C or higher.
- The facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the CO2 hydration catalyst is soluble in water.
- The facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the gel membrane is a hydrogel.
- The facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the CO2 carrier contains at least one of a carbonate of an alkali metal, a bicarbonate of an alkali metal and a hydroxide of an alkali metal.
- The facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to claim 6, wherein the alkali metal is cesium or rubidium.
- The facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the separation-functional membrane is supported on a hydrophilic porous membrane.
- A CO2 separation apparatus comprising the facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to any one of claims 1 to 8 with the CO2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, the apparatus is arranged such that a mixed gas containing C02 and H2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher can be supplied to the facilitated C02 transport membrane, and the C02 can pass through the facilitated C02 transport membrane to be separated from the mixed gas.
- A method for producing the facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to any one of claims 1 to 8, the method comprising the steps of:preparing a cast solution including an aqueous solution containing the hydrophilic polymer, the CO2 carrier and the CO2 hydration catalyst that is soluble in water; andcasting the cast solution on a hydrophilic porous membrane and drying such at room temperature, wherein said cast solution is then gelled to produce a separation-functional membrane.
- A method for separating CO2 using the facilitated CO2 transport membrane according to any one of claims 1 to 8, with the CO2 hydration catalyst having catalytic activity at a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher, wherein a mixed gas containing CO2 and H2 and having a temperature of 100Ā°C or higher is supplied to the facilitated CO2 transport membrane, and the CO2 passing through the facilitated CO2 transport membrane is separated from the mixed gas.
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